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[ On Mon, September 19, 1994 at 19:51:15 (-0400), Erik Naggum wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion: Optional highlighting of selected region in X
>
> (setq default-frame-alist (acons 'cursor-type 'bar default-frame-alist))
> 
> will give you a bar cursor, which in addition to being very non-intrusive
> on the screen, will make highlighting, including `search-highlight' and
> `query-replace-highlight' _very_ useful.  if you have a color display, you
> could probably fiddle with the cursor display to make it a little more
> visible than the one-pixel wide vertical line it is today.

Hmmm....  My desire is to have an even more intrusive cursor!  ;-)  I
truely prefer a blinking block.  If only I had a colour screen, I'd most
definitely have a differently coloured cursor, but I don't really want
colour for day-to-day work, esp. with text, so I do really only want a
blinking cursor.  My DMD-5620 can do it!  Why can't X?  ;-)

> I found this such a wonderful thing that I patched xterm to drop the silly
> blob-or-box-cursor, too, and made the cursor disappear when the window was
> not selected.  patch is minimal.  send me a note if you want it (X11R5).

I'm also quite happy with the box outline cursor on the dormant screens.
In fact I don't like systems I've used where the cursor disappears from
inactive windows -- it is sometimes nice to be able to see them....

> (setq mouse-yank-at-point t) and it will insert at point, instead.

Oh, now I feel stupid!  ;-)  But THANKS!  I'll try RTFM more often.
(I've buggered something in my current 19.19 environment, and describe-*
don't pull up the documentation text (though apropos does!).

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